Hidden in Plain Sight: Writing Women into History Event Date: 17 January 2026 Event Time: 8 p.m. IST/ 6.30 a.m. PTEvent Address: ZoomContact us at aclisa.contact@gmail.com Registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWgtccpmEwPUKdJ1Xfo1DyIRKFlO6UPhWtMzuXrB3Hv_CIsg/viewform About the Author Dr. Devika Rangachari is an award-winning Indian writer whose Queen of Ice was on the White Raven list, won the Neev Young Adult Book Award, was … Continue reading Author Talks: Dr. Devika Rangachari
Hidden in Plain Sight: Writing Women into History Event Date: 17 January 2026 Event Time: 8 p.m. IST/ 6.30 a.m. PTEvent Address: ZoomContact us at aclisa.contact@gmail.com Registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWgtccpmEwPUKdJ1Xfo1DyIRKFlO6UPhWtMzuXrB3Hv_CIsg/viewform About the Author Dr. Devika Rangachari is an award-winning Indian writer whose Queen of Ice was on the White Raven list, won the Neev Young Adult Book Award, was … Continue reading Author Talks: Dr. Devika Rangachari
by Sreejith Murali Sreekumar, K (2021), Malayalam Balasahitya Charitram [Trans: History of Malayalam Children’s Literature] (2 Volumes), Kozhikode: Poorna Publications (First Edition), pp. 1312. Fig. 1: The cover page of the two-volume book. This two-volume encyclopaedic collection of the history of children’s literature in Malayalam is an invaluable collection of materials related to the history … Continue reading Book Review: Malayalam Balasahitya Charitram by K. Sreekumar
Ritwika Roy A Home to Haunt, Sudeshna Shome Ghosh, illus. Pankaj Saikia, HarperCollins, 2025. Kolkata, or Calcutta as it was once known, is replete with stories of ghosts and hauntings, many of which stem from the city’s days as the capital of British India. There’s the National Library, where former Governor-General Lord Hastings is rumoured … Continue reading Not A Review: A Home to Haunt, Sudeshna Shome Ghosh
Kamayani Kumar “Riots are an uncanny subversion of normalcy”[1] Riots create an uncanny experience because they involve a collapse of the familiar social structures, and the world feels alienated and hostile. This is especially true in the context of children. Most often, children emerge as the most invisible victims of riots, largely because of their … Continue reading Riots and Children: Warped Childhood
Playing hide and seek with Childhood in Kashmir Date: 20th September Time 8.00 p.m. IST/7.30 a.m. PT Venue: Zoom To register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefhZoQa5OydpF_YGxQOCNP5PYY9hEQcEGIhZu0iKlPvjtmDA/viewform?usp=dialog Talk Abstract Kashmir is one of the most contentious territories in India. Caught in the imbroglio of insurgency and counterinsurgency, it has become eclipsed by terror, violence, and trauma and has become a … Continue reading On Scholarship: Kamayani Kumar
Sietse Hagen In 2018, I started my undergraduate studies on English language and culture in the Netherlands, where I am from. I came for linguistics, and I wanted to become a secondary-school teacher, but I ended up falling in love with literary criticism. I quickly encountered postcolonialism and became intrigued with postcolonial literature. In my … Continue reading Horror and Trauma in Contemporary Indian Children’s Literature